Old Kingdom Elite Tombs

Bibliography of Old Kingdom elite tomb iconography and related subjects. The list is frequently updated. To suggest a title (preferably with a link to online content) or report a broken link, please contact me.

Walsem, R. van, The Interpretation of Iconographic Programmes in Old Kingdom Elite Tombs of the Memphite Area: Methodological and Theoretical (Re)considerations, in: Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists (1998), 1205-1213.

Walsem, R. van, The caption to a cattle fording scene in a tomb at Saqqara and its implications for the Seh/Sinnbild discussion on Egyptian iconography, in: Egyptian religion: The last thousand years. Studies dedicated to the memory of Jan Quaegebeur, vol. 2 (1998), 1469-1485.

Kanawati, N., The living and the dead in Old Kingdom tomb scenes, SAK 9 (1981), 213-225.

Kinney, L.J., Butcher queens of the fourth and fifth dynasties: Their association with the Acacia house and the role of butchers as ritual performers, in: Ancient Memphis: ‘Enduring is the Perfection’ (2012), 253-266.